Ornamentation.



vA. BURKE.

ORNAMENTATION.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27 1917.

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ALFRED BURKE, OF'BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

OBNAMENTATIGN.

Specification of Letters atent.

Patented dan. 2%, lilla..

Application led March 27, 1917. Serial No. 157,749.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALFRED BURKE, zen ot the United C.51:ates, borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, count-y ot Kings, and State ot New York, have invented certain new and useful .improvements in Ornamentation, of which the following is a specilieation.

My invention relates to ornamentations 'for articles of manufacture.

rlfhe objects of this invention are to provide a raised ornamentation which can be easily and cheaply produced and with Very little waste of material.

rl`he principle of this invention, in whatsoever mode it is carried out, consists in slitting a blank to Jform strips and in bending said strips to produce a raised ornamentation integral with the blank.

The ornamentation may assume a large variety ot designs and it may be applied to many ditl'erent kinds ot articles such as, for example, hair clasps, barrettes, buckles and bronches.

ln the accompanying drawings illustrating one :term of my invention, l have shown the ornamentation applied to a hair clasp of the character described in my application for patent. Serial No. 156,706, tiled March 22nd, 1917.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of a blank from which the ornamentation is made; Fig. 2 is a View ot the same showing parte thereof bent over in process of making the ornamentation; Fie. 3 is a side elevation looking in the direc tion of the arrow in Fig. 2. and Fig. fl is a plan View of the completed ornamentation.

The ornament is made of Celluloid. metal or other suitable material which can be bent without breaking either in its normal state or when heated.

1 indicates a substantially diamond-shaped Celluloid blank, having its middle portion 2 cut away and provided with a pair oi' opw positely disposed hair engaging prongs 3. it desired. the middle portion ot the blank :may remain intact and the prongs be dispensed with.

A series ot substantially parallel hshaped slits l are cut in the top and bottom pora citiresidmg at the `tions of the blank, the extremities of each 'slit terminating at a point above the extrem- @opies o@ this patent may te obtained for ities of the next outer slit, as shown in Fie". l, and forming between them a series of \l shaped strips 5, (i and 7, having their ends integral with lthe body ot the blank.

The strips are then bent over upon the ground or body ot the blank, as shown in Fig. Q, the bends in the strips being located in ditlerent vertical planes so as to leave spaces between adjacent strips, the strips in the upper portion of the blank being bent downward and those in the lower portion upward with their tips interlocked to forni a raised lattieework ornamentation, as shown in Fig. 4.

According to my invention whereby the ornamentation is made entirely ot one piece of material, eliminate the necessity of cementing the parte as would be required it they were made olf separate pieces, and, furthermore, l am able to produce the oru namentation with very little waste of stock.

By varying the configuration of the blank and of the strips which are eut therein, the

ornamentation may be subject to a great va.

riety of changes in design. For example, the strips instead of being V-shaped may be curved, and the slits l instead et being straight may be formed with undulations. it is apparent also that the number of strips which are cut in the blank to 'form the ornamentation may be varied as desired.

'What l claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. An ornamentation comprising of `flexible material and strips of the same material laid upon the ground to form a raised design. the strips haring their ends integral with the ground.

2. An ornamentation comprising a ground of flexible material and a series of strips of the same material laid upon the ground in criss-cross relation to term a lattice-work design. the strips haring their ends integral with the ground.

3. An ornamentation comprisinga ground of flexible material and series ot' oppositely disposed substantially lshaped strips ot' the same material laid upon the ground, said strips having their ends integral with the ground and having their tips inter locked.

a ground ALFRED BURKE.

ive cents eeen, by addressing 'the Commissioner et Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

